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I’ve just finished setting up payment system for a local bakery using an iPod touch and Square. It is a small bakery that sells cookies, coffee and waffles. From time to time customers came in and asked if they could pay using credit card. Now they can take credit card.
I have had the draft of this post for almost a week now, and yes I took the title from “Peace Sells” lyric. After numbers of revisions, I scrapped the entire content and started a new one. Well, this is the new content.
Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and The Protect IP Act (PIPA) are the talk of the Internet these days. I’d go this far to say:
In their current form, SOPA and PIPA easily undermine if not violate the First and Fourth Amendments.
We have to do something about it.
There is a newly created petition to veto the SOPA bill on WhiteHouse.gov “We the People” site. I urge you, voting Americans, to sign this petition.
Related:
Glad I finish the data transfers on the iMac.
Josh Topolsky and MG Siegler are having war of words over reviews of Galaxy Nexus. John Gruber seems to be cheering for Siegler on this one.
Chronology:
To be honest, both Topolsky and Siegler are “tech elitists”. For the rest of us, we love watching “nerd fight”.
It has been more than a year since I first installed SSD on my MacBook Pro. I bought ADATA S599 SSD 128GB back in September 2010 and had to deal with the seemingly anemic storage space. Over the past 15 months I had been installing numerous brands of SandForce-based SSD’s on desktops and laptops; none of them disappoint.
Brands and models I have worked with among many:
I found myself needing more storage space on my MacBook Pro. That means I need a higher capacity SSD. The next logical step is to get a 240GB SSD which would give me enough storage space and still relatively affordable.
Well, it’s time for me to go shopping for SSD.
SOPA: Stop Online Piracy Act
From Mozilla Foundation:
From Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF):
Rage Against The SOPA:
It’s such a SOPA-pera.
Currently Time Capsule, Airport Extreme and AirPort Express do not have iCloud support. This means iCloud users can not access any AirPort Disk remotely. MobileMe service will be shut down in June 2012 and Apple has yet to mention if iCloud would support AirPort Disk.
